Is an online degree worthless?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Is an online degree worthless?

I would like to further my education, in order to increase professional opportunities, but I don’t want to leave the work force. Is an accredited Online Graduate Degree worth my time and money?

I work in Operations Research.

Get an online degree from a university that also has campuses and has been around. Such as University of California at Berkeley. Then your degree will be as good as on campus degrees because the professors are the same. If you get one purely online, you don’t know what kind of instructors teach those courses. For the employer’s point of view, as long as the school is reputable and accredited, it wouldn’t matter much.

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7 Responses to “Is an online degree worthless?”

yhans5108 Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 9:40 pm

If I were an employer, I would think really, really hard before I hire someone with an online degree. However, that said, online degrees aren’t probably useless. If I were you, I would look for physical, well-known universities that offer online courses.
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Ja Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 9:49 pm

"arien’t probably useless"….yeah, ok! whatever that means.

Online courses, have online test, right? Yeah, I don’t count looking up answers in your test book as an education. You pay for an education, and online, you don’t really need to learn ANYTHING to pass. All test are open book, you’d have to be illiterate not to get a 100%.
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Golden Girl Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 10:30 pm

If it is accredited (from a *real* university/college), your degree will just be that - a degree. Not an "online degree."

However, if take classes through somewhere like "Degree in Minutes!," then yes, it is essentially worthless.
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shipwreck Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 11:05 pm

If you learn what you need to know it isn’t worthless. They can’t really replace all the classes like physical education but you can learn about the same amount.

You will have a degree that may not read the same but for something like a government job the demands a degree you have it. After you are hired in most jobs nobody knows what degrees anyone has. My boss has worked here since 1968 I assume he went to college. He is VP of Finance, he knows his job and nobody cares about any degrees. If you have a foot in the door and are learning it will be worth it.

If it were to turn out worthless but you learned everything you could go get a degree from a local school, test out of most everything and be done in no time.

My friend had degrees in art history and English lit but when she wanted to work she got one in accounting in less than 2 years.
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arun Says:
July 1st, 2009 at 11:51 pm

http://www.tutorskingdom.com/. try it, this is a good online education site. provides instant assignment help in various subjects like Mathematics, essay writing, Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer science and Statistics etc. I am satisfied with the services.
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Peter Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 am

You can easily compare these schools, get tips to apply and students feedback in internet - icollege.enacre.net
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Meg D Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 am

Get an online degree from a university that also has campuses and has been around. Such as University of California at Berkeley. Then your degree will be as good as on campus degrees because the professors are the same. If you get one purely online, you don’t know what kind of instructors teach those courses. For the employer’s point of view, as long as the school is reputable and accredited, it wouldn’t matter much.
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http://www.online-degree-check.com/